Alok Industries Limited - ™Integrated Textile Solutions

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At Alok, product quality is of paramount importance; it is also one of the reasons why our products have gained acceptance across seventy countries and some of the world's most demanding customers. Testing for adherence to quality parameters is, therefore, an integral part of the manufacturing process at Alok. To ensure that our products conform to the highest quality specifications, we have set up a number of laboratories at our plants, with state-of-the-art testing equipment.

At our Spinning plant, Alok tests for raw cotton properties like length, strength and colour fastness, short-term variations and imperfections, yarn elongation and yarn count. The list of equipment at the testing laboratory is given below.

EQUIPMENT		USED FOR
HVI Spectrum		Testing of raw cotton properties like length, strength, miconaire, colour
AFIS PRO		Testing of neps in raw cotton and in process material
USTER TESTER 5		Testing mass variation in sliver, roving and yarn Checking short term variations like imperfections (Thin places , thick places and neps) and hairiness in the yarn
USTER CLASSIMAT QUANTUM		Checking seldom occurring yarn faults and their classification
USTER TENSOJET		Checking single yarn strength RKM and Elongation of yarn
USTER AUTOSORTER 5		Checking count of sliver, roving and yarn
CSP TESTER		Keeping the test facilities in line with prevalent Indian textile terms (like CSP)

In addition, we have also installed a twist tester for checking amount of twist in the yarn; a trash separator checks the level of trash in cotton.

Apart from this, the laboratory is backed with LUWA air conditioning systems to maintain international testing atmosphere for textiles as per ISO 139:2005.

The two laboratories at Vapi are designed for testing home furnishing fabrics and apparel fabrics, as well as knits fabrics. The equipments installed in these laboratories are from world leaders such as Mathis, James H. Heal, U.K., Whirlpool, IFB etc. Colour measurement is conducted through Datacolour 600 plus CT machines, Colour Eye 7000 A from Grateg Macbeth, USA and a 3-auto colour dispensing system from Datacolour. In addition, the following testing equipments are also installed.

3 nos. Spectrophotometer
3 nos. Auto Color dispensing systems
2 nos. Color viewing cabinets
3 nos. Grateg Macbeth-SPLIII-2
1 no. Verivide –CAC-150-1
Apollo light and weather fastness tester
Tensile strength tester Titan from J.H. Heal
Tear strength tester Elmatear from J.H. Heal
Pilling and abrasion tester from Nu-Martindale
Crock meter, Laundrometer, Perspirometer, Gyrowash, Wascator, front loading washing machines from J.H. Heal
Whirlpool top loading washing machines and tumble dryers
Lab dyeing padder, Stenter, CDR, E-Control pad steamer from Mathis
Labomate-exhaust dyeing machines from Mathis
Rota Dyer, Conditioning cabinet from J.H. Heal
Colour solution maker
Total physical conditioning plant from M/s LUVA.